Woven-wire seat



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H. ROBERTS.

WOVEN WIEE SEAT.

Patented June'lQ, 1883.

n )furl Inventor:

UNITED STATES PATENT OEEICEa HENRY ROBERTS, OF HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT.

WOVEN-WIRE SEAT.

SPECIFICATION forming part-of Letters Patent No. 279,598, dated June 19, 1883.

Application filed March 16, 1883.

To all whom it may concern,.-

Be it known that I, HENRY RoEERTs, of the city and county of Hartford, in the State of Connecticut, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Woven-Wire Seats; and I do hereby declare that the following is the true specication thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings as a part of th specication.

This invention relates to woven-wire seats composed of a rigid frame of wood or other suitable material, a woven-wire fabric on the top of the seat, which fabric is composed of strands running crosswise of the seat, a wovenwire fabric on each side of the seat, which fabric is composed of strands running lengthwise of the seat, and a number of spiral springs supporting the top fabric, and supported by cross-pieces rigidly Vattached to the frame.

Figure 1 is a top view of the seat, with portions of the fabrics broken away to show the method in which the side fabrics are joined to the end fabrics. Fig. 2 is an end view of the seat, with a part of the top fabric absent, so as to show the method of connecting the top fabric with the spiral springs. Fig. 3 is a side view of the seat, with portions of the fabric broken away to show the spiral springs.

A and Avare the side pieces of the frame. B and B are the end pieces of the frame. C C C C are cross-pieces of the frame. l D is the top fabric. E and E are the side fabrics. F is a spiral wire, which fastens the side fabric E to the top fabric.` A similar wire fastens the other side fabric to the top fabric. G represents the spiral springs. H and H areV specimen wire loops connecting the spiral springs to the top fabric. J represents the staples which fasten the top fabric to the end piece B. Similar staples fasten the other side of the top fabric tothe other end piece. K and K are clamp-pieces, of wood orother suitable material, which are fastened to the outside of the respective end pieces of the frame, inclosing the ends of the side fabrics between the end pieces and the clamp-pieces.

The top fabric is composed of a series of spiral wires simply interwoven, as shown in the drawings, and may have its outerstrand on each side composed of several wires 'spiraled to- (No modeLl gether. The ends of the top fabric are at the sides of the seat, and are made by cutting fabric of the proper width through from side to side. -v

The side fabrics are composed of a series of spiral wires interwoven in such a compound manner that the side fabrics have more wires and more strength in proportion to surface than the top fabric has. The lower side of each side fabric may be finished with an outer strand composed of several wires spiraled together. The upper side of each side fabric is lapped over the adjoining end of the top fabric, and is joined to the .top fabric by the spiral wire H, which, being interwoven with the meshes of both fabrics, unites both fabrics by a sort of cross-weaving. The ends of the side fabrics are clamped rigidly to the corresponding corners of the frame by being bent around the corresponding outer angles of the end pieces, and clamped to the outer sides of the end pieces by means.. of the clamp-pieces. The spiral springs rest on the cross-pieces, and their tops are fastened to the top fabric by the wire loops. There should be enough of these loops to each spring to prevent that spring from leaning in any direction. In an actual seat there should be at least three rows of springs, and at least three times as many springs in each row as the number of persons the seat is designed to provide for. Thus constructed the seat may be upholstered in any proper manner.

This invention has the following new mode of operation: The weight of the sitter is supported partly by the spiral springs, and partly lby the side fabrics, and partly by the top fabric,and not at all -by any rigid thing, except ythrough those springs and those fabrics.

I claim as my invention- The combination, in a seat, ofthe top woven1 wire fabric, the strands of which run across the seat, and a side woven-wire fabric, the strands ofjvhich run lengthwise of the seat, and one or vmore spiral springs under the top fabric, all arranged substantially as described.

HENRY ROBERTS.

W'itnesses:

ALBERT H. VALKER, MORGAN W. BEACH.l 

